IN FRATERNAM MEAM: ALL ABOUT MOVIES OF 2004

IN FRATERNAM MEAM

Sunday, January 16, 2005

ALL ABOUT MOVIES OF 2004

ROEPER'S BEST FILMS OF 2004

1..."Hotel Rowanda"

2..."Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

3..."The Aviator"

4..."Sideways"

5..."House of Flying Daggers"

6..."Million Dollar Baby"

7..."The Terminal"

8..."Kill Bill Vo. 2"

9..."Spanglish"

10.."Collateral"

11.."Garden State"

12.."Closer"

13.."Kinsey"

14.."Ray"

15.."The Assasination of Richard Nixon"

16.."Baadassss!"

17.."Finding Neverland"

18.."Maria Full of Grace"

19.."The Passion of Christ"

20.."Spider Man 2"

21.."Friday Night Lights"

22.."Open Water"

23.."The Dreamers"

24.."The Village"

25.."The Woodsman"

TOP FIVE DOCUMENTARIES

1..."Metallica: Some Kind of Monster"

2..."Super Size Me"

3..."Overnight"

4..."Fahrenheit 911"

5..."Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry"

CONTROVERSY WAS KING IN 2004

Most Beautiful movie of the year:
"House of Flying Daggers."
If you'd rather go to the dentist than a foreign movie,
take a chance on life and see this one.
You will not be disaapointed.

Ugliest movie of the year:
"Saw."
Mutilation,amputation and other forms of torture,
all brought to you in an overly astray, headache
inducing style.

Funniest sex movie of the year:
"Alexander"
Colin Farrell and Rosario Dawson get naked and
hiss and paw at each other.

Sexiest sex scene of the year:
Sabrina Seyvecou and Coralie Revel in "Secret Things."
(It's a French film, Rent it)

Best sequel of the year:
"Spider Man 2"

Worst sequel of the year:
"The Whole Ten Yards"

Worst sequel to a sequel of the year:
"Blade: Trinity."

Best two minute cameo of the year:
"Kinsey" by Lynn Redgrave

Best Mascara:
Jared Leto in "Alexander"

Most impressive debut:
Bryce Howard in the unjustly ripped "The Village"

Best fight scene:
Uma Thurman vs Daryl Hannah in "Kill Bill Vol. 2"

Worst fight scene:
Hugh Jackman takes a bunch of phony-looking, computer
generated foes in "Van Helsing"

Number of sequels in the top four box office films of the year:
Three: "Shrek 2", "Spider Man 2", "Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azbakan".
The only non sequel is "The Passion of Christ," which
probably isn't going to have a sequel, but certainly could.

Actors who played themselves in movies in 2004:
Julia Roberts and Julia Roberts in "Oceans Twelve"
Bill Murray, Steve Coogan and Alfred Molina in
"Coffee and Cigarettes"
Neil Patrick Harris "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle"
Chuck Norris " Dodgeball"
David Hasselhoff "The SpangeBob Square Pants Movie"

Scariest movie of the year:
"The Forgotten", "Dawn of the Dead" and "Open Water"

Scary movies that did'nt scare me:
"Godsend", "The Grudge", and "Saw"

Most romantic moments of the year:
Zach Braff kisses Natalie Portman in the driving rain in "garden State"

Least romantic and most intense scene of the year:
Prodded by Clive Owen, Julia Roberts describes
the infideltiy in beyond graphic details.

It's a Cinderella story:
The calendar said it was 2004, but there was a
distinct 1955 feel to these films about young women
falling in love with actual princes:
"The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement"
"A Cinderella Story"
"The Prince and Me"
"Ella Enchanted"

Words to live by:
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball"
Rip Torn as Patches O'Houliahn in "Dodgeball"

Right Movie, wrong Corleone:
Premiere magazine's list of the 100 greatest
movie characters of all time was headed
by Marlon Brando's Don Coleone.

ROEPER'S WORST FILMS OF 2004

1... "White Castle."

2... "The Whale"

3... "Godsend"

4... "Scooby-Doo 2: MOnsters Unleashed"

5... "The Stepford Wives"

6... "Catwoman"

7... "Thunderbirds"

8... "Saw"

9... "Taxi"

10.. "Connie and Carla"

(abstracted from the report of Roepert of CHICAGOSUNTIMES)

posted by infraternam meam @ 4:05 AM

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